April 2023 | Jo Ledingham

Under Milk Wood

Jericho Arts Centre until April 30, 2023
Metro Theatre May 5-14, 2023
Hard-drinking, hard-living, hard-loving writer Dylan Thomas set Under Milk Wood, originally produced as a radio play for the BBC in 1954, in LLareggub, a fictitious seaside town in south Wales. Spelled backwards, Llareggub is “buggerall”. Such irreverence and playfulness with words infuses Under Milk Wood.

Gordon Law, Diana Sandberg (as Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard) and Peter Robbins in Under Milk Wood. Credit: Nancy Caldwell

Stupid F*cking Bird

The Cultch Historic Theatre to April 23, 2023
Superior direction by Mindy Parfitt and stellar performances by everyone, Stupid F*cking Bird is packed with tremendous sympathy for the human condition and the timely questioning of the function of theatre: then as now.

Nathan Kay as Con and Kerry Sandomirsky as Emma in Stupid F*cking Bird. Credit: Emily Cooper

Black & Rural

Pacific Theatre to April 15, 2023
Spell-binding. You know a theatrical performance has had an effect when there is a long silence before the applause. It’s as if applauding will break the spell.

Shayna Jones in Black & Rural. Credit: Sarah Race